Humbuckers are basically twin single coil pickups joined together to eliminate the hum you normally get from single coil pickups and in so doing, giving you a "fatter" sound. (Some Stratocaster and Telecaster players like the option of a fatter sound option and buy/install a humbucker to accompany their single coils even if the original guitars weren't designed so).
I love mostly low output Fender single coils and I'm a bit of a traditionalist so you won't find humbuckers on my Fenders. (Nor will you find Les Pauls for example with single coils). If I want to play a guitar with humbuckers I reach for my Samick Greg Bennett Royale semi.
These days you can also get noiseless single coil pickups so hum is no longer an issue, though I must confess to not having much experience with them.
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